happy birthday to my ibook

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my ibook is three years old today and not once have i had to reinstall the restore disk/operating system

tomorrow, my compaq presario 1272 laptop turns three years old...the feet fell off and had to be reglued, the battery completely died nearly two years ago, and i have restore disked the computer at least seven times in that three years

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my super-upgaded PM9600/300 was made in 1997-1998. i use it as my main home machine running X.2.3 every day. i specifically bought it last summer for this purpose when my s900 fried a PCI bridge chip (it's fixed now).

just another old mac that runs faithfully as intended. not too many pc users that have PC's from this long ago running anything up-to-date.

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Originally posted by mc68k my super-upgaded PM9600/300 was made in 1997-1998. i use it as my main home machine running X.2.3 every day. i specifically bought it last summer for this purpose when my s900 fried a PCI bridge chip (it's fixed now).

just another old mac that runs faithfully as intended. not too many pc users that have PC's from this long ago running anything up-to-date.

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my slightly older pc can only run windows 95, 98, ME, and NT

but there is no way this 150 mhz pentium desktop i have, in mothballs, can run windows xp, or even windows 2000

even my 366 mhz laptop won't run everything on windows 2000 and even that machine does not make the hardware copatibility list for windows 2000...so i uninstalled the os

macs certainly have a much longer life when it comes to software compatibility

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Originally posted by edesignuk
WOW! What kind of spec does a 10yr old laptop have?

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I have a friend who has a 9 year old (1994 vintage) PowerBook 520c, the first color laptop ever made. Still runs like new, and now that it's been upgraded to 8.6 (I did the upgrade), it can run IE 5 and surf the web like a champ (albeit at dial-up speeds when it's actually connected via cable modem). Crazy! That experience (and also her Beige G3 which runs OS 10.2.3 like a champ) is what convinced me to make the switch to a mac. The amazing thing is that the 520c still looks great by today's standards, too. It's small, light, and has a very cool retro-future look to it.

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Originally posted by FelixDerKater Nobody ever said the Mac Portable was a notebook/laptop. It was just a portable Mac. Everything was in one piece, so you you could carry it from place to place, but still use it on a table or desk.

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my table weighs less than the portable mac..he he

actually, for its time, it was really cool to have a computer so small

my compaq was considered light at the time in mid-99 at 7.6 lbs with its 12" inch screen

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